Top 100 Quotes About My Inspiration

#1. Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Quentin Bryce

#2. I really do think with my pen, because my head often knows nothing about what my hand is writing.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. My tears had given me an inspiration.

Stephenie Meyer

#4. My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.

Audrey Hepburn

#5. I didn't take inspiration from other photographers, which in a way helped to find my own images.

Peter Lindbergh

#6. My parents are my inspiration. Believe it or not, they're my personal coaches. After every game I still call them and get their take on how I played.

Vince Carter

#7. First, I had time, but no money; then I had money, but no time. Finally, I had time and money, but no health to make use of my wealth.-RVM

R.v.m.

#8. I get a lot of my inspiration from my family, but I never got to meet my dad's dad.

Guy Fieri

#9. I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.

Shakira

#10. For me, my targets are more important than my happiness and that is the secret of my happiness.

Amit Kalantri

#11. I'm my biggest inspiration. And I say this in the most humble way. I've been through so much, just in my life.

Brandy Norwood

#12. Words both written and read are my passion.

Leslie Austin

#13. I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Al Sharpton

#14. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. Any time I sit down at my laptop to write and I'm feeling lazy, or that I can't be bothered, or if I'm generally just lacking inspiration, I sit there and remember life with my ex-wife, and the words flow from my fingertips.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#16. I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

Natasha Bedingfield

#17. My goal is to be an inspiration to others!

James K. Moore

#18. I had come to see, too, that all my characters and I were motivated by the same inspiration. Whether it was power they sought, or revenge, or love - well, those were all just different forms of hunger. The bigger the hole inside you, the more desperate you became to fill it. As

Jodi Picoult

#19. Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

Jan Mark

#20. Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

Dave Barry

#21. I grew up with my older brother listening to hip hop, and Jay-Z was the main person I listened to. When it comes to his word play, he's just out of this world. That's my biggest inspiration when it comes to writing lyrics.

Tinchy Stryder

#22. My heart is filled with endless praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#23. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.

Wesley D. Gray

#24. The doctrine of the atonement is to my mind one of the surest proofs of the divine inspiration of Holy Scripture.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#25. Every town has its dark side, but I spend time in New York for my dark inspiration.

John Lutz

#26. My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

Meg Cabot

#27. My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

Enrique Iglesias

#28. Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

Duncan Sheik

#29. All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

Bertrand Russell

#30. My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.

Anne Lamott

#31. I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications.

Olivia Palermo

#32. My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

Al-Shafi'i

#33. When there's no stimulus to be found on the outside, you have no option but to look inside yourself for inspiration, and when I did it set off a creativity that had always been inside of me, It mixed with my environment and life experiences to make something tangible,something that expressed me.

Bernard Sumner

#34. What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

Origen

#35. I could go and buy one of the islands in the
Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build and
create a new company.

Elon Musk

#36. When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

Saint Augustine

#37. In terms of my inspirations to become an artist, I think they come from early ideas and impressions about community, and the type of community I wanted to be in, and the type of thinking I wanted to do.

Laura Owens

#38. I'm trying to write for people my age. And my inspiration over the years has changed dramatically.

John Mellencamp

#39. In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

Hanna Rosin

#40. As an actress, if you find inspiration through my work, then my job is complete.

Masiela Lusha

#41. Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills

Groucho Marx

#42. In many ways, unexpected results are what have most inspired my photography.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#43. Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

Robert Ballard

#44. I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

Kat Graham

#45. It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

Hillman Curtis

#46. As I read the Qur'an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Jeffrey Lang

#47. God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.

Charles Journet

#48. I don't believe in anarchy, because it will ultimately amount to the power of the bully, with weapons. Gandhi is my life's inspiration: passive resistance. I don't want to live in the Thunderdome with Mad Max.

John Lydon

#49. I find so much inspiration and healing from Mother Earth. Through my connection with Nature my soul is nurtured.

Jodi Sky Rogers

#50. My manager said the next best inspiration to heartbreak is travel, and it's true.

Beth Orton

#51. This is my life ... my story ... my book. I will no longer let anyone else write it; nor will I apologize for the edits I make.

Steve Maraboli

#52. People used to envy me my inspiration. I hate inspiration. It takes you over completely. I could never wait until it passed and I got rid of it.

Henry Miller

#53. My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

James Joyce

#54. Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of the One.
Blessed is the poem that comes through me but not of me because the sound of my own music will drown the song of Love.

Rumi

#55. Being receptive to what is happening around me gives me inspiration and feeds my desire to create.

Jake T. Austin

#56. I am a man, not a movement," he said. "But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

Victoria Schwab

#57. From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.

Abbas Kiarostami

#58. If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to impress upon the hearts and minds of my people, it's to get out of the self life.

Jack Hyles

#59. Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

Teresa Of Avila

#60. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

#61. It's not like what I do or what I wear is my copyright. What I'm wearing now also is an inspiration. It is how I saw it on the mannequin, and I just wore it, so it's in a way copied. But obviously, I wouldn't want to spend my life thinking about dresses. It is such a waste of life.

Kangana Ranaut

#62. Nature is my manifestation of God.
I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#63. DJ Tiesto was my first inspiration. I heard him play at the Olympics in 2004 and from that moment on I knew I wanted to make music and become a DJ. I made a bootleg of a track by Enrique Iglesias called Tonight.

Martin Garrix

#64. How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

Amy Tan

#65. Nature's probably my greatest inspiration. Everything I need is found in nature, it compels me to create and care. If you can't find what you're looking for in wild places or the eyes of wild creatures, it probably doesn't exist.

Todd Michael Cox

#66. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

Raquel Cepeda

#67. I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

Pixie Lott

#68. Eternal Trinity ... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being ...

St. Catherine Of Siena

#69. It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.

Lana Del Rey

#70. To be someone's inspiration is the biggest goal in my life.

Demi Lovato

#71. One is distracted by this notion that there is such an thing as inspiration, that it comes fast and easy. And some people are graced by that style. I'm not. So I have to work as hard as any stiff to come up with my payload

Leonard Cohen

#72. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.

Megan Smith

#73. DI: Thank you for being my inspiration for DI. Thank you for giving me the time of day. Thank you for being my confidante in everything dark. Thank you for being a friend.

B.B. Reid

#74. People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single window that shows me a cement wall. This is a profession, and it's important to have professionalism about the writing.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#75. In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it, all right.

Markus Zusak

#76. When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big.

Michael J. Fox

#77. My father was a great inspiration, and there was a bit of competition between us. He'd work in his studio, and I'd work in my space, but the door was always half open.

Jamie Wyeth

#78. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!

Mignon' Talise Padilla

#79. I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.

Lionel Suggs

#80. I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

#81. Islam brings hope and comfort to millions of people in my country, and to more than a billion people worldwide. Ramadan is also an occasion to remember that Islam gave birth to a rich civilization of learning that has benefited mankind.

George W. Bush

#82. If I could turn down the noise of my own will and choiceI could hear the truth of my life in a clear voice. I will bow down my head to the wisdom of my heart ...

Carrie Newcomer

#83. Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. I just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one in the book.

Rose Wynters

#84. When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

Katy B

#85. It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

Lauren Oliver

#86. In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul.

Luis Barragan

#87. I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.

Hannah Kearney

#88. I guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.

Miranda July

#89. Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.

Klaus Schwab

#90. My father-in-law ... was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

Billy Graham

#91. I can't promise my child a life without bias - we're all biased - but I promise to bias my child with multiple perspectives.

K.K. Raghava

#92. I am Happy. I love colorful and cute stuffs. Whole my life is all about being happy and to stay positive in my beliefs. I love to inspire people and let them know more about themselves.

Diana Rose Morcilla

#93. I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

Robert Englund

#94. I have made the Bhagwad Gita as the main source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigations and formation of my theories.

Albert Einstein

#95. Entire universes flourish in my mind. Sometimes I get lost in there.

Janey Colbourne

#96. I think writers are observers and watchers. We always have our ears open and eyes open, so I might see something in everyday life that inspires me. And I think that's probably more than anything else. Everyday life is where I get my inspiration.

Kevin Henkes

#97. There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Robert H. Schuller

#98. My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.

Waris Ahluwalia

#99. Mistress Creation keeps calling my name ... i long for her, and she, for me ... we will be reunited soon. In the interim, i bide my time dreaming of her, writing about her and stretching her across the vast landscape of my imagination. "Soon", i whisper to her, "Soon

Jaeda DeWalt

#100. There was no point in living in fear of death, or questioning the reason for my existence because as far as I knew, I was not in complete control of my life, nor can any other person be.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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